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Adam Harris

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Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Yeah, so there are a couple of variousβ€”it was interesting because the administration has gone farther than just saying, hey, you need to get everything in check, right? Figure it out, Columbia. They've actually given them a list of things that they could do in terms of disciplinary measures for students.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

They said that one of the academic departments needs to be put under sort of academic receivership, meaning that someone comes in from outside of the department to serve as the chair and sort of look over their curriculums and things like that. So there are these sort of very specific guidelines for what can and cannot be said on campuses.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

They said that one of the academic departments needs to be put under sort of academic receivership, meaning that someone comes in from outside of the department to serve as the chair and sort of look over their curriculums and things like that. So there are these sort of very specific guidelines for what can and cannot be said on campuses.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

They said that one of the academic departments needs to be put under sort of academic receivership, meaning that someone comes in from outside of the department to serve as the chair and sort of look over their curriculums and things like that. So there are these sort of very specific guidelines for what can and cannot be said on campuses.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And once you start restricting speech in one manner, that sort of means you can restrict speech in a lot of different ways. So if you say, well, you can't have these sort of pro-Palestinian protests in a specific area, and if you do, then we're going to take your funding away.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And once you start restricting speech in one manner, that sort of means you can restrict speech in a lot of different ways. So if you say, well, you can't have these sort of pro-Palestinian protests in a specific area, and if you do, then we're going to take your funding away.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And once you start restricting speech in one manner, that sort of means you can restrict speech in a lot of different ways. So if you say, well, you can't have these sort of pro-Palestinian protests in a specific area, and if you do, then we're going to take your funding away.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

There are a lot of things there that are reminiscent of the ways that southern governors used to say that students at Alabama State couldn't have sit-ins, otherwise they were going to remove the funding from Alabama State College, right? It's adjudicating specific behaviors and speech that students are making, which is really a threat to all of the principles of an institution.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

There are a lot of things there that are reminiscent of the ways that southern governors used to say that students at Alabama State couldn't have sit-ins, otherwise they were going to remove the funding from Alabama State College, right? It's adjudicating specific behaviors and speech that students are making, which is really a threat to all of the principles of an institution.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

There are a lot of things there that are reminiscent of the ways that southern governors used to say that students at Alabama State couldn't have sit-ins, otherwise they were going to remove the funding from Alabama State College, right? It's adjudicating specific behaviors and speech that students are making, which is really a threat to all of the principles of an institution.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

When an administration can come into an institution and say, you have to do this very specific thing. These are the policies that you have to implement. The principles of shared governance, the principles of academic freedom, the principles of a sort of free system of higher education really go away. And those same principles that are sort of the bedrocks of our democracy, right, the

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

When an administration can come into an institution and say, you have to do this very specific thing. These are the policies that you have to implement. The principles of shared governance, the principles of academic freedom, the principles of a sort of free system of higher education really go away. And those same principles that are sort of the bedrocks of our democracy, right, the

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

When an administration can come into an institution and say, you have to do this very specific thing. These are the policies that you have to implement. The principles of shared governance, the principles of academic freedom, the principles of a sort of free system of higher education really go away. And those same principles that are sort of the bedrocks of our democracy, right, the

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

The First Amendment is literally about free speech. When those sorts of things go away, it becomes a very dangerous environment that limits what people can say and do.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

The First Amendment is literally about free speech. When those sorts of things go away, it becomes a very dangerous environment that limits what people can say and do.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

The First Amendment is literally about free speech. When those sorts of things go away, it becomes a very dangerous environment that limits what people can say and do.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Yeah, yeah, I think, so that vision that Rufo discussed sort of happened in Hungary, where they're sort of trying to get back to the cultural traditions, the cultural values that the nation had, those sort of ideas of Christian faith, the ideas of sort of family life. In the same way, it sort of embodies that notion of make America great again.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Yeah, yeah, I think, so that vision that Rufo discussed sort of happened in Hungary, where they're sort of trying to get back to the cultural traditions, the cultural values that the nation had, those sort of ideas of Christian faith, the ideas of sort of family life. In the same way, it sort of embodies that notion of make America great again.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Yeah, yeah, I think, so that vision that Rufo discussed sort of happened in Hungary, where they're sort of trying to get back to the cultural traditions, the cultural values that the nation had, those sort of ideas of Christian faith, the ideas of sort of family life. In the same way, it sort of embodies that notion of make America great again.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And so the question has always been, well, when exactly was America great? And over the last several years, there has been an argument that has built up in conservative circles that America was great. better off in terms of these ideas of personal liberty and the freedom of association before the Civil Rights Act was signed.